New Test Forum Is UP!

[Gary Lewis]

We now have an instance of our forum's software, Nabble, running on Amazon Web Services' Lightsail servers.  

It is based on a backup I made from this, the production forum, this afternoon, so anyone that was a member at that time should be able to click on the New Bullnose Test Forum at the top right of the menu and check it out.

You can post on that forum, but be aware that it is all throwaway.  IOW, nothing posted there will come here.  It is just there for test purposes.

But please go check it out.  The Lightsail servers are much less expensive than the full-blown AWS servers that were racking up a pretty sizable monthly bill until we shut them down.  However I hope these servers will be plenty fast enough as well as reasonably priced.

If in our testing they appear to be hunky dory then maybe Pedro can fix the email problem which prevents us from getting email notifications - of anything, such as new members registering or people posting.  That's the main thing stopping us from migrating to the Lightsail servers from Nabble.

So, please check and let me know.

[kramttocs]

I can browse and that is working well but it's not letting me login to try out posting.

[Gary Lewis]

I had some problems with that initially.  But you really shouldn't have to log in again.  It is a backup of this forum only a few hours old, so the ID and PW should be the same.

In my case I'd changed my password and had forgotten that.

[Gary Lewis]

Well, bummer!  Now I'm not logged in.  

[Gary Lewis]

Ok, it appears to be something to do with it being embedded on the website.  Go here and see if that doesn't work: http://bullnose-enthusiasts-forum.7.gabbleforum.org/

[kramttocs]

Ok, I'll stop trying
I have no problem logging out and logging in here but over there (same uid/pwd) it just reloads the login form.

[kramttocs]

That works! Just created a new thread successfully.

[Gary Lewis]

Yes, and I replied.

I can't log in via the New Bullnose Test Forum link, but can via the link above.  

[grumpin]

I tried it, worked good, didn’t post.

I went to Big Blues Transformation thread, it takes awhile to load that with the pictures and diagrams and such on this server. It took a few seconds to load but I could scroll down and see everything right away.

[Gary Lewis]

Thanks, Dane.  I timed loading the first post of Big Blue's Transformation thread on here and it took 8 seconds.  On the Lightsail servers it took 2 seconds, or maybe a bit less.

[1986F150Six]

I just tried and this came up:

NEW BULLNOSE TEST FORUM
DO NOT TRY TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THIS FORUM!  THE JOINING PROCESS IS BROKEN AT THE MOMENT AND YOUR REQUEST WILL BE LOST!

Further, any posts in this forum will be lost.  It is just for testing purposes!
Bullnose Enthusiasts Forum

[Gary Lewis]

Yes, I put that on the one that is embedded on the website.  On the one in the link I called it the Bullnose TEST Forum and put:

his is just for testing purposes.  You cannot request to become a member as the joining process is broken.  And any posts on here will be lost when we upload the latest backup from the production forum.
 So just test this one out and let us know how it works.

The issue is that if people try to join we won't get email notification thereof.  Nor will they get the email they need to get in order to prove ownership of the email address they used.  So there's no way to join.  But people might try.

Until we get the issue of not being able to log on to the one in the menu above, please use this one: http://bullnose-enthusiasts-forum.7.gabbleforum.org/